NeuroscienceApril 11, 2017
Is Neuroscience Limited by Tools or Ideas?
Searching for a way out of the field’s conceptual traps
Stories by Partha Mitra
Partha Mitra is Crick-Clay Professor at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and H N Mahabala Professor (visiting) at IIT Madras. He obtained a PhD in Theoretical Physics at Harvard and was a member of the Theory Group at Bell Laboratories. He is currently engaged in mapping brain circuits in the Mouse and the Marmoset. You can follow him @partha_mitra
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What’s Wrong with the Brain Activity Map Proposal
With the president suggesting a multibillion-dollar neuroscience effort, a leading neuroscientist explains the deep conceptual problems with plans to record all the brain's neurons
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The Brain's Highways: Mapping the Last Frontier
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